Coleman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
3
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Penry v. Lynaugh · Michael Wayne Williams v. John Taylor Warden
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence of a difficult childhood warrants little, if any, mitigating weight.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“evidence about the defendant's background and character is relevant because of the belief, long held by this society, that defendants who commit criminal acts that are attributable to a disadvantaged background, or to emotional and mental problems, may be less culpable than defendants who have no such excuse.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“our previous holdings that a difficult childhood carries little mitigating weight,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.